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:''This page refers to the U.S. pawpaw in the genus ''Asimina''. In some other parts of the world, the name pawpaw is applied to the unrelated tropical fruit [[papaya]] (''Carica papaya'').'' {{Taxobox | color = lightgreen | name = Pawpaw | image = Asimina_triloba3.jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = Common Pawpaw in fruit | regnum = [[Plant]]ae | divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]] | classis = [[Magnoliopsida]] | ordo = [[Magnoliales]] | familia = [[Annonaceae]] | genus = '''''Asimina''''' | genus_authority = [[Michel Adanson|Adans.]] | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }} '''Pawpaw''' (''Asimina'') is a genus of eight or nine species of small [[tree]]s with large leaves and fruit, native to eastern [[North America]]. The genus includes the largest edible [[fruit]] indigenous to the continent. They are [[understory]] trees found in deep fertile bottomland and hilly upland habitat. Pawpaw is in the same family ([[Annonaceae]]) as the [[custard-apple]], [[cherimoya]], [[Sugar-apple|sweetsop]], and [[soursop]], and it is the only member of that family not confined to the [[tropics]].

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